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As Election Day approaches, Burgess said voters should at this point consider playing it safe and find a drop site.

The county has typically told voters they can mail ballots in as late as the Thursday prior to Election Day, but Burgess said, “by about tomorrow it’s getting pretty chancy about mailing your ballot in.”

May 14 is the last day to mail absentee or replacement ballots for the district election.

The county clerk’s office will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots must be returned by 8 p.m.

Marion County is one of three counties in Oregon to offer voters a pilot program that will track their ballots from the moment they’re received to the moment they’re counted.

Yamhill and Multnomah counties are the only other participants in the ballot tracking program, Burgess said.

“It’s just a trial this election.”

An automated alert, which can be a voice, text or email message, will inform voters if and when their ballots were counted.

It also informs them of a signature problem that would prohibit their ballot from being counted. This will speed up the process of alerting voters that they have to fix their signature in order for it to be counted.

Voters have until 14 days after an election to fix a signature problem, such as a missing signature or one that doesn’t match what’s on file at the clerk’s office, but typically only about half of those voters actually return to fix it, Burgess said.